Events

History of Beekeeping: Bees in Torrington, Connecticut, North America, and the World This program focuses on the evolution of beekeeping from the collection of honey from wild hives to the domestication of bees into managed hives. We will discuss how ancient civilizations collected and used honey, how bees came to the US, the rising popularity […]

Frederick Douglass, From Slave to Statesman – Professor Bryan Sinche, University of Hartford Frederick Douglass was a writer, an editor, an activist, a government minister, and the de facto spokesman for nineteenth-century Black America. In this lecture, Bryan Sinche will highlight Douglass’s achievements as a pre-Civil War author and abolitionist, explain his importance as a Civil […]